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People talk about it being a 6-3 court but it’s actually more of a 5-4 court. You have 5 NPCs and 4 people who actually do their jobs.

 
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IrishLax said:
People talk about it being a 6-3 court but it’s actually more of a 5-4 court. You have 5 NPCs and 4 people who actually do their jobs.

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After reading Jackson’s dissent, I know where she lies.
 
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Holy #### I can't believe Justice Jackson said something that misinformed on multiple levels. You don't expect perfection, but you do expect a SCOTUS justice to have clerks and researchers who do their homework and keep you from saying stuff like this. Absolutely 100%, common sense should've told her that there was no way something like that was remotely plausible and that she needed to check her facts or her interpretation of what she'd read before saying something that ridiculous and misinformed.

This is a classic, but certainly not isolated or rare, example of agenda-before-facts thinking, and why we get so many REALLY bad, misinformed opinions and statements from people whose desire for something to be true outweighs their attention to detail or adherence to facts, reason, and evidence. Here's a better explanation of Jackson's huge mistake as well as a few other examples of this type of nonsense from justices making demonstrably false claims.

www.nationalreview.com

Fact Check: Liberal Supreme Court Justices Rely on False Claims about Racism, Anti-Gay Bigotry to Bolster Dissents | National Review

Justices Jackson and Sotomayor repeated false claims about Matthew Shepard, black infant mortality, and the Pulse nightclub shooting.
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Bishop2b5 said:
Holy #### I can't believe Justice Jackson said something that misinformed on multiple levels. You don't expect perfection, but you do expect a SCOTUS justice to have clerks and researchers who do their homework and keep you from saying stuff like this. Absolutely 100%, common sense should've told her that there was no way something like that was remotely plausible and that she needed to check her facts or her interpretation of what she'd read before saying something that ridiculous and misinformed.

This is a classic, but certainly not isolated or rare, example of agenda-before-facts thinking, and why we get so many REALLY bad, misinformed opinions and statements from people whose desire for something to be true outweighs their attention to detail or adherence to facts, reason, and evidence. Here's a better explanation of Jackson's huge mistake as well as a few other examples of this type of nonsense from justices making demonstrably false claims.

www.nationalreview.com

Fact Check: Liberal Supreme Court Justices Rely on False Claims about Racism, Anti-Gay Bigotry to Bolster Dissents | National Review

Justices Jackson and Sotomayor repeated false claims about Matthew Shepard, black infant mortality, and the Pulse nightclub shooting.
www.nationalreview.com www.nationalreview.com
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Clearly, some of our activist judges aren’t working that hard.
 
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IrishLax said:
People talk about it being a 6-3 court but it’s actually more of a 5-4 court. You have 5 NPCs and 4 people who actually do their jobs.

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Aside from the lack of actual work in Jackson’s dissent…

 
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I was talking to a Notre Dame employee, this person said their family gets either free or very heavily discounted tuition. I’m curious if this would be racist as well.
 
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Blazers46 said:
I was talking to a Notre Dame employee, this person said their family gets either free or very heavily discounted tuition. I’m curious if this would be racist as well.
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My friend's mother is a higher up at a small private school in ND. He was able to get HUGE discounts at a giant network of private schools nationwide. Colleges take care of one another as well as their own.
 
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My friend's mother is a higher up at a small private school in ND. He was able to get HUGE discounts at a giant network of private schools nationwide. Colleges take care of one another as well as their own.
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A very roundabout way of saying it’s racist.
 
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C'mon man! You know she was going to donate the proceeds to the needy.
 
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drayer54 said:
Most of it is BS designed to diminish the court.

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Strange that the same author did not mention anything about who was raising these ethical issues when it comes to Sotomayor's pressure to buy her books.

I'm being facetious, I can infure why. So, hard pass on taking opinions from a Tuck Tuck site contributor to hart.

I would think that demanding a SCOTUS code of ethics would not be a partisan thing. The details, sure, that will get haggled over, but I struggle seeing how this wouldn't be a net positive for the court.
 
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jprue24 said:
Strange that the same author did not mention anything about who was raising these ethical issues when it comes to Sotomayor's pressure to buy her books.

I'm being facetious, I can infure why. So, hard pass on taking opinions from a Tuck Tuck site contributor to hart.

I would think that demanding a SCOTUS code of ethics would not be a partisan thing. The details, sure, that will get haggled over, but I struggle seeing how this wouldn't be a net positive for the court.
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No way the GOP legitimizes this attempt to attack SCOTUS. I'm fine with staffers asking lawyers to chip in 20 bucks for a party.
 
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I would think that demanding a SCOTUS code of ethics would not be a partisan thing. The details, sure, that will get haggled over, but I struggle seeing how this wouldn't be a net positive for the court.
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Agree

I'm curious to all of the questionable SCOTUS judges "actions" no one knew about back in the 30's - 90's before the interwebby thing.
 
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